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Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick’s books include The Odd Woman and the City, Fierce Attachments, The End of the Novel of Love, The Men In My Life, and Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life. She teaches writing at The New School.

Content From This Author

Arts in Society

Other People’s Lives

What makes biography good?

Vivian Gornick

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

Feeling Paranoid

Phyllis Schlafly, Trump, and the terror of difference.

Vivian Gornick

Forum Response

Vivian Gornick responds to Kate Manne

In the ’70s, feminists felt bereft even of support from those on the radical left.

Vivian Gornick

Arts in Society, Philosophy & Religion

Your Own Worst Enemy

Every day we transgress against our own longing to act well.

Vivian Gornick

Gender & Sexuality

Good Feminist

Should feminism join with other causes, or make its own path?

Vivian Gornick

Gender & Sexuality, Philosophy & Religion

In Defense of Narcissism

When narcissism was pathologized, reformers were labeled as narcissists and discontent swept under the rug. George Scialabba responds.

Vivian Gornick

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

Empire's Wasteland

The cause of Camus's native countrymen moved him, yet he yearned helplessly toward the European culture that had formed him.

Vivian Gornick

Arts in Society

The Cure for Loneliness

The Lives of Erich Fromm.

Vivian Gornick

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

What Would Emma Do?

An interview with Vivian Gornick about the mother of anarchism.

Vivian Gornick, David V. Johnson

Arts in Society, Politics

My Hungry Soul

Alfred Kazin’s raw materials.

Vivian Gornick

Arts in Society, Global Justice

Saving Souls

David Grossman’s Article of Faith

Vivian Gornick

Arts in Society

The Ancient Dream

The “happily ever after” of marriage ruined the Tolstoys.

Vivian Gornick

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